You got it Mike, Call and response is an important part of the blues and jazz also. I will inclued some of this in up coming lessons.

Hi Duke .. love the lesson!  Couple reasons .. first, I like that the licks are using a part of the fretboard I rarely play on .. so it's great to get more comfortable in this area...

While not specific tunes, I would enjoy seeing lessons on the playing of some of the early electric guitar players like Charlie Christian or Tiny Grimes. This thread got me to go...

Hi Mike- Thanks for the reply. I tried posting last night, but deleted the post because I did not think that the video had loaded right. Tried again tonight, and it turns out that...

Hi Duke- Thanks for the awesome lessons. From your old Hot Licks DVD, to the videos on the original Red Oak site and here, I have learned a lot about playing the music I love from...

Hi Jason .. thanks for the message and sorry for the issue.  What you experienced is the expected behavior (the yellow box gets replaced by the video when you click save) .. and...

I am trying to post a video to the comments section of How Long Blues Lesson 5. I recorded the video with Photo Both on an iMac, and it is in Quicktime .mov format. When I try to...

Duke, I am looking forward to the Jazz Trio CD being released.  When can we expect to see that album for sale?  What is the fomat, guitar/bass/drums, or guitar/bass/piano?   I am a...

thank you! Steve

Hi Steve, I have an instrumental version of that on my forthcoming jazz guitar trio CD! That would be a good one also. Duke

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And from the same After Hours Swing Session album, I'll Never Be The Same Done in 1937 by Billie and The Teddy Wilson Orchestra Sadly, this is the last song of Duke's that my...

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Steve I love that Billie Holiday's voice takes on trumpet-like qualities at times on this song! I have an old Harmony "Patrician" that needs new strings before I could play this...

Duke, maybe you could do "I Can't Believe You're In Love With Me" posted by mars5.  I'd like to see your take on Rhythm guitar, Timing, as well as chord substitution logic.  Along...

Read Duke's post and I hadn't heard Wee Wee Hours before so I looked it up.  Love it ... so I thought I would put it in the thread.  Enjoy.

Well, my brother played guitar and is 10 years older that me. When I was 6 he was 16 and it was 1954 the birth year of rock and roll it is said. I decideded then I was going to be...

mars5, I just ran through that chart.  Very nice!  Thanks again.  I'll be working on this one to make it part of my repertoire.  I would love to hear and see you play it if you...

Thanks Steve, I'll be doing Jumpin Blues next after Cookin. Duke

mars5 yes this is one of the better videos of me playing this song. I am playing it in Db which is the key I recorded it it in with Roomful. I now do it in C because of my vocal...

That's Sax Gordon doing the wild tenor solo on my version of Lonesome Road and Bruce Katz smokin' on organ. Snooks Eaglin's was amazing and his version is really cool.........  

Hi Catya .. you're right!  Thank you.  We will update in the next couple days.

mars5,  Thank you for sharing the written lesson! I'm definately going to try this out. Steve

Thanks Mike...this wasn't the first time that I had played with Taj, but to answer your question, I always try to listen to where they are coming from.  If they are a strong player...

Thanks for your supporting the music.  Stay tuned to sonic junction...soon we will be learning Blind Blake's CC Pill Blues.  Later we will explore open tunings and slide guitar...

@mars 5 .. great suggestion.  I really love Duke's version too on A Swingin' Session .. and thanks for introducting me to Snook's version .. it's great!  I really like the chords...

A great visual of my personal favorite Roomful of Blues song played by Duke in Ospel, The Netherlands, March, 2010 My Tears features many of the chords that we've learned here in...